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    Fiscal policy and equity: estimation of the progressivity and redistributive capacity of taxes and social public expenditure in the Andean countries

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2007
    Recent studies show that Latin America is the region with the highest levels of inequality in the world.
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    Breaking the Silence: the Global Gag Rule's Impact on Unsafe Abortion

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2003
    To what extent is the Bush Administration's gag rule contributing to the global crisis of unsafe abortion? The global gag rule (also known as the Mexico City Policy) is an executive order, issued by President Bush in 2001, which restricts foreign Non Government Organisations (NGOs) who receive USAID family planning assistance from using their own, non-U.S.
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    Transparency & silence: a survey of access to information laws and practices in fourteen countries

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2006
    The ability of citizens to request and receive information on the workings of their government is crucial to ensure transparency and accountability. This report provides a snapshot on the state of access to information in fourteen countries. It provides the results of a study undertaken to discover how government offices and agencies respond to specific requests for information.
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    Compartir conocimientos para el desarrollo rural: retos, experiencias y métodos

    América Latina en Movimiento, Agencia Latinoamericana de Información (ALAI), 2007
    Desde la “Revolución Verde”, la producción global de alimentos ha aumentado dramáticamente. Mas el hambre continúa extendiéndose en muchas partes del mundo, particularmente en áreas rurales, y muchos pequeños agricultores se enfrentan ahora a la ruina financiera.
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    Rural transport, safety and security

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    By 2020, road accidents are expected to be the third highest cause of death and disability globally. Transport safety concerns in poor countries have focused mainly on roads and motorised traffic, but in rural areas, transport safety includes a broader set of issues. How does transport safety affect rural communities, and what can be done to improve safety?
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    More and better teachers needed: achieving quality education for all

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Eighteen million primary school teachers are needed over the next decade to meet Universal Primary Education (UPE) goals, says a recent report from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics. This is to fill the new posts needed and the vacancies created by attrition (teachers leaving existing posts).
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    Missing in action: Addressing teacher absenteeism

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Getting teachers to come to work is a major barrier to improving education outcomes in some developing countries, especially in South Asia. Governments often spend 70 to 90 percent of their recurrent education budgets on teacher salaries, without the most basic of returns.
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    Dual job-holding by public sector doctors: regulation options in Peru

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    It is becoming common practice for doctors working in government facilities to hold a second job – or more – in the private sector to supplement their relatively low public sector income. This dual practice is open to unethical behaviour and corruption yet it is difficult for governments to regulate. What options exist for effective regulation of these activities?
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    Global Information Society 2007

    Global Information Society Watch, 2007
    The Global Information Society Watch 2007 report - the first in a series of annual reports- looks at state of the field of information and communication technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels and particularly how policy impacts on the lives of people living in developing countries.
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    Returns to private education in Peru

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2007
    The private provision of educational services at tertiary, secondary and primary levels has been expanding in Latin America in recent decades. The low quality of public provision of education is given as the main reason for the expansion of private service provision.

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